Posted on 12/16/2006 3:30:43 PM PST by Ronald ReaganROCKS
California schoolteachers shouldn't get tenure. If they suck at their job, they need to be fired. Liberal teachers' unions make sure that bad teachers can't get fired. Their insfficiency is dumbing down the students and costing us money. This just in....California sucks.
ARTICLE:
Teachers Like Tenure But Admit Its Flaws
New teachers left with most difficult students Written By: George A. Clowes Published In: School Reform News Publication Date: July 1, 2003 Publisher: The Heartland Institute
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Most of America's public school teachers (58 percent) believe tenure protects teachers from district politics, favoritism, and the threat of losing their jobs to newcomers who would earn less, according to a new survey, titled Stand By Me, from Public Agenda, a national nonpartisan, nonprofit public opinion research organization.
Yet a majority (58 percent) of teachers also admit that being awarded tenure does not necessarily mean such teachers have worked hard and proved themselves to be very good at what they do. One union official admitted to defending tenured teachers "who shouldn't even be pumping gas."
Teachers freely acknowledge that some teachers shouldn't be teaching, with nearly three out of five (59 percent) admitting there are a few teachers in their building who "fail to do a good job and are simply going through the motions." Another 17 percent say there are "more than a few," and only 19 percent say there are none.
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The teachers Unions have to be broken to save the children. Individuals who can need to homeschool or get private education in those areas where the public schools are destroyed.
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When you're posting something from a blog, please post it in the bloggers forum. It's not that hard, and we're getting tired of cleaning up after you.
Thank you.
No teacher should get tenure.
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